I tell her I’m justgoing to finish this chapter and then
I’ll join her and she’ll get what she’s after.
Sleep is impatient keeps poking me
insisting I pay hersome attention.
I think she is jealous of my books.
Sleep slips a mickeyinto my herbal tea and has her way with me.
I wake at three and realizeshe’s left me again.
She’s thrown my bookon the floorand hasn’t even botheredto turn out the light.

Ed Werstein is an employment counselor who assists Native American job seekers. His poetry has appeared in Verse Wisconsin, New Verse News, the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets calendar, and a few other publications. Ed lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is a proud member of The Hartford Avenue Poets group.

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KevinArnold:
Fun.Posted 10/05/2011 04:20 AM

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